Machine for making casks.



J. GILMOUR. MACHINE FOR MAKING GASKS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11 1908.

Patented May 4, 1909.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 908.

Patented May 4, 1909.

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M ACHINE FOR MAKING CASKS.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 11, 1908.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Serial No. 437,875.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l", JOHN GILMoUR, a citizen ofthe United States, resident of @WGDS- boro, in the county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, have made certain new and use ful Invention in Machines for Making Casks; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to machines for making cashs, having for its object the provision of a machine of simple and e'l'licient character whereby tobacco hogsheads may be readily set up from the loose staves and the binding hoops secured therearound by an unskilled person or boy.

Other objects and advantages will hereinfter appear.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth.

in the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a plan View of the machine, showing the front section of the stave holder turned outward in dotted lines, and showing the staves of the lower half of the cash in position in the machine Fig. 2 is a section on the line 95-51;, Fi 1, with all of the staves of the cash shown as in position in the machine and showing the hoop tightener as applied; Fig. 8 is similar view, the staves of the lower half of the cash only being shown as in position in the machine and the hoop tightener not being shown Fig. l is a front view of the machine showing the front sections of the stave holders turned outward in dotted lines Fig, 5 is a detail longitudinal section of the slot and bolt connection for the end portions of the central inner hoop, Fig. 6 is an end view of the machine showing the staves of the lower half of the cash in position therein, and showing the devices for decreasing the diameter of the stave holder in forming casks of smaller size Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6

In these drawings the letter a, designates a platform or base upon which the machine is mounted. At each end of the base is provided a stave holder and tightener Z), of annular or ring form, each such device being formed in two semicircular sections 0, and 0, having a hinged connection (Z, at the bottom thereof. The rear section 0, at each end, rigidly supported from the base b r horizontal top and bottom tangential arms a, e, and a vertical arm or standard f, connecting the arms 6, e. The forward section c, is hinged at its bottom end to the section 0, at d, as before stated, and at its upper or free end is provided with a perforation 0 A tening lever g, is fulcrumed at its lower end to the section 0, at each end, near the upper end thereof, and has flexible connection g, witl the upper end of the hinged section 0, a hook end it, of such flexible connection engaging the perforation 0 The lever g, has pawl engagement with the teeth of rack i, for the purpose of maintaining the lever and section 0, at each end in position as adjusted.

The loose staves are dropped or inserted into the machine at the top thereof around an inner supporting annulus j, located centrally of the machine, and are held in position upon the outside by the stave holders Z), Z), at each end of the machine. That is to say the lower staves are inserted into position upon the end holders, until they form the lower half of the hogshead, when the inner ring is placed in position and the remaining half of the hogshead built up. The sections of the end holders are then tightened upon the staves by the levers and flexible connections referred to, when the bilge hoops are ready to be placed and tightened in position by the means now to be described.

Each bilge hoop 76, comprises preferably a flat band of sheet metal or it may be of wood, one end 7c, of which is first nailed to the hogshead at W, the other end Z, being detachably secured in a cam clamp Z, having flexible connection m, with a lever m, such lever having a pointed metal end m capable of engagement with the hogshead, whereby when drawn or pulled downward the loose end of the hoop will be brought toward and lapped with the nailed orfast end thereof and the hoop tightened upon the hogshead,

' when it may be nailed upon the fast end or adjacent thereto. The bilge hoops having been applied as aforesaid the hogshead is complete with the exception of the heads, which may be readily placed and secured in position, the inner ring j, being first removed. The flat body portion Z of the clamp Z, is

may be set up the inner supporting annulus substantially in line with the loose end of the hoop 7c, when the device for tightening the hoop is in use.

In order that hogsheads of varying size j, has its ends normally separated by an interval j, and connected by side pieces i having bolt connection 0, 0, with one end of the 1100p, and slot and bolt connection 0, 0

inch-thick piece 19, is bolted to the inside of the sections a, c, at each end of the machine, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings. Owing to the spring character of the central inner stave-supporting annulus it yields or the ends thereof approach each other when the staves are inserted in the machine for the hogshead of usual or ordinary size, thus preventing the staves from slipping past each other.

When the hogshead is ready to be removed from the machine the movable section 0, is turned horizontally upon the vertical hinge in connection with the section 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 or" the drawings, allowing the hogshead to move forward and out of the machine. In order that the sections 0, a, may be readily turned horizontally for this purpose the end holders of which they form a part are located quite close to the ends of the hogshead to bebuilt, the distance separating such holders being but little less than the length of the staves.

The devices for tightening the bilge hoops, including the lever m, having a pointed metal end for engagement with the hogshead and a flexible connection intermediately thereof with the clamp device for the free end of the hoop, may be used without the machine proper for tightening and securing hoops upon a barrel in substitution for a broken hoop or hoops thereof.

Having described the invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. in a machine for making casks, a base, outside supporting and tightening means for the staves including a rigid semi-circular member, a pivoted semi-circular member capable of swinging upon the chord of its are as a center, means for adjusting the pivoted member toward the fixed member, and inside supporting means for the staves.

2. in a machine for making casks, a base, outside supporting and tightening means for the staves including a rigid semi-circular member, a pivoted semi-circular member capable of swinging u Jon the chord of its arc as a center, a lever cevice having a flexible connection with the pivoted member for adjusting the same toward the fixed member, means for fixing the lever adjustment, and inside supporting means for the staves.

3. in a machine for making casks, a base, outside supporting and tightening means for the staves including a rigid semi-circular member, a pivoted semi-circular member capable of swinging upon the chord of its are as a center, a lever device having a flexible connection with the pivoted member for adjusting the same toward the fixed member, means for ixing the lever adjustment, in side supporting means for the staves, and inner detachable semi-circular strips having connection with the fixed and pivoted members.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN GILMOUR.

ditnesses FRANK A. CANNON, J. VJ. PORTER. 

